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News • Implicit information

In-depth AI microbiome analysis reveals colorectal cancer

Scientists developed an AI-based approach to diagnose colorectal cancer from different microbial subgroups in the gut microbiota – a non-invasive and low-cost alternative to colonoscopy screening.

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News • Breast cancer screening

Mammography: Hybrid reading to overcome AI overconfidence

Mammography image interpretation AI models are unreliable – but so are human readers. A new hybrid strategy could reduce radiologist workload by 38% without compromising diagnostic efficacy.

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News • Mammogram assessment

AI can replace second radiologist in breast cancer screening, study finds

More clinically relevant tumors detected at an earlier stage and at lower costs: New research finds that AI can replace the second radiologist in the Dutch breast cancer screening program.

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News • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

One step closer to COPD population screening

A multicenter study involving leading hospitals across Spain, has confirmed that people with COPD show altered levels of specific metabolites in their blood.

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Article • Blood-based biomarkers under scrutiny

BBB testing for universal Alzheimer’s screening? It’s complicated

Do laboratory tests using blood-based biomarkers (BBB) represent the next type of universally recommended screening tests for Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Experts curb the high expectations for…

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News • Tracking current and emerging threats

Combined wastewater and individual testing for better virus detection

When someone is infected with a virus, traces of it are shed in their bodily waste and end up in the sewage system. Thus, combined wastewater and individual testing can benefit public health response.

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Article • Launch of new national program

A new “impulse” for equitable lung cancer screening in France

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the EU, yet no organized screening program exists to detect the disease before symptoms appear. This September, France will strike back with an ambitious pilot program that could boost European lung cancer screening. Professor Marie-Pierre Revel presented the details at the French Thoracic Imaging Society Spring Days in Marseille, highlighting…

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Article • Point-of-care diagnostics

Improving women’s health in remote regions with digital pathology

Point-of-care diagnostics based on a combination of mobile-sized scanners and artificial intelligence (AI) are helping save the lives of women in low-resource settings. The AI technique is being applied in Kenya and Tanzania to deliver screening for cervical cancer – now the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women in that region and a bigger cause of death than childbirth.

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